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Dartmouth still stresses football enough to be this year's leader in the Ivy League, still puts on its Winter Carnival, the nation's coldest and wildest college weekend. But doused in Hopkins Center culture and prodded to more "self-education" than ever, Dartmouth men are fast finding that winter in Hanover can be the intellectual joy of a lifetime.
* Who in 1819 overruled the state legislature's attempt to take over Dartmouth as a public university.
The landmark decision 1) guaranteed the rights of U.S. private colleges, and 2) gave the sanctity of contract to corporate charters, a key event in the history of U.S. business.